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General Considerations For Lipidated Peptide Synthesis Introduction of Lipids Into Peptides
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Synthesis of Lipidated Peptides Synthesis of Lipidated Proteins Using Lipidated Peptides Conclusions
In this review, an overview is given for the synthesis of lipidated peptides such as those belonging to the Rab, Ras, eNOS, and hedgehog proteins. The different approaches for the synthesis of specic lipidated peptides (palmitoylated, prenylated, and myristoylated) are discussed with special emphasis on solid-phase synthesis methods, because these methods have turned out to be the preferred synthesis method for most required peptides. Different solid-phase methods are described that are individually suited for different types of lipidated peptides, differing, for example, in lipidation pattern or amino acid side-chain functionality and in their protein ligation functionality. For the described solution approaches, the block coupling strategies followed for the different lipidated peptides are highlighted. A special section in this review discusses the different synthetic tools for the incorporation of the lipid functionalities in the peptides. Although a generally validated strategy for the synthesis of lipidated peptides does not exist, because of the large number of different functionalities, this review aids in the conceptual design of synthetic protocols for lipidated peptides. Finally, the methods for the ligation of lipidated peptides to proteins are shortly discussed, as these methods also signicantly inuence the design and synthesis of lipidated peptides.
The continued existence of cells crucially depends on their ability to receive signals from the environment and to respond to them in a suitable way. This process of signal transduction, i.e., the forwarding of signals from the extracellular matrix via the cytoplasm into the nucleus, involves, among others, proteins that are modied with structural hydrophobic features attached to the peptide backbone. Posttranslational lipidation by acylation with fatty acids, alkylation with prenyl moieties, and conjunction of more complex lipid components, for instance, the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) moiety, occurs on a wide variety of intracellular and extracellular signaling proteins. An example of proteins containing lipid moieties are membrane-attached proteins. This review provides a concise overview of the synthesis of lipidated peptides from these membrane proteins and discusses possible methods for generating intact proteins with these peptides. The family of Ras proteins is one of the most relevant examples of lipidated membrane proteins from both their abundance and their biological and pharmaceutical importance and is therefore used as a general motif in this review (1).
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an approximation of the real situation, especially because diversity between the individual members is often encountered in the lipidated part of the protein. The biochemical generation of fully functionalized and modied lipidated proteins is, however, difcult and time-consuming. In the case of S -palmitoylation, it leads to heterogeneous mixtures and is, therefore, in most cases, not practical or applicable. Therefore, in recent years, chemical biological approaches have been developed that give access to fully functional lipidated peptides and proteins, together with additional non-natural modications, which was achieved via two techniques that were developed more or less in parallel: 1) the progress in the eld of protein ligation and chemical synthesis of proteins (6) and 2) the progress in the eld of lipidated peptide synthesis, both in solution and on solid support. The development of these synthetic methods with special attention to the solid-phase methods are the focus of this review. Synthetic strategies giving access to lipidated peptides have been developed during the last 10 years and have been reviewed both for solution and for solid support approaches (7, 8). This review is therefore not an all-inclusive review, but it highlights how different types of lipidated peptides can be most effectively synthesized. The synthesis of lipidated peptides can follow different strategies such as the use of solid-phase versus solution-phase techniques, the use of lipidated building blocks versus peptide lipidation, and the application of the Boc versus Fmoc strategy as well as enzymatic (912) and noble metal (13) sensitive methods. The decision regarding which strategy to follow will generally depend on the types and positions of the lipid groups in the peptides, the length of the peptide, the C -terminal functionality, the presence of additional functional groups such as 2
uorescent markers or spin labels, and the purication strategy. Particularly regarding the lipids and functional groups, the synthetic strategy has to be fully adapted to the reactivities of these modications. For solid-phase chemistry, the choice of the linker to the resin is an additional criterion to consider in the synthetic planning (Fig. 2). For lipidated peptides, some general guidelines have emerged: 1) (strong) Acid-labile protecting groups or linkers cannot be used in combination with prenyl groups. 2) Prenyl groups are not compatible with protecting groups that have to be removed under hydrogenolytic conditions. 3) Thioesters such as palmitoyl groups attached to cysteines are labile toward nucleophiles. 4) Non-natural functional groups such as uorophores, photoactivatable groups, and tags for ligation to proteins generally impose synthetic limitations. 5) Prenylated dipeptide esters undergo rapid diketopiperazine formation upon N -terminal deprotection. 6) The palmitoyl group on an N -terminally unmasked cysteine rapidly undergoes an undesired S ,N -acyl shift. An additional issue that requires attention during the synthetic process is the purication of the lipidated peptides. Both nal products and intermediates are often badly soluble in both water and organic solvent or feature detergent-like characteristics, which limits purication via both silica gel chromatography and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Purication can therefore be time-consuming and can result in low yields. However, the strongly dissimilar nature of the coupling partners, for instance, with respect to hydrophobicity, can also be used to facilitate the separation of product and starting compounds or the separation of double-lipidated from single-lipidated peptide.
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Figure 2 Characteristic reactivities of lipidated peptides and requirements for an appropriate solid-phase synthesis protocol with protecting groups and linker orthogonal to each other and to the lipid functionalities.
Considering these features and limitations, it is not surprising that a general strategy for the synthesis of lipidated peptides, such as the Fmoc- or Boc-strategy for normal peptides, does not exist. However, several tools have been developed such as protecting groups, resin linkers, and synthetic approaches that have allowed some general strategies to emerge with which most lipidated peptides can be synthesized. This review tries to guide the reader to some generally validated approaches that meet the restraining demands imposed by the peptides. In our experience, solid-phase approaches offer fast and exible entries to multiply lipidated peptides; therefore, the main focus will be on these solid-phase approaches.
These newly developed methods for the incorporation of lipidated amino acids might prove benecial in future solid-phase lipidated peptide synthesis.
On-bead lipidation
Lipidation on the solid support requires an orthogonal protecting group strategy that allows the stepwise introduction of different lipid groups on the same peptide such as a farnesyl group and a palmitoyl group (Fig. 3c) (20, 21). This approach generally uses a large excess of the lipid groups, which becomes problematic if the lipid groups need to be synthesized (e.g., in modied form) and requires an extensive protecting group strategy. A possible solution to overcome these problems might be the application of the recently developed reversed approach of S -farnesylation and S -palmitoylation to solid-phase chemistry (26). In this approach, lipid groups are introduced via the SN 2-displacement of a bromide by reaction of a thiol group containing lipid as nucleophile with bromoalanine-containing peptides as electrophile in solution (Fig. 3b). Another elegant approach to introduce a prenyl thioether into peptides could be the use of a chemoselective conjugate addition of an thiolate nucleophile (e.g., farnesylthiolate) to a dehydroalanine (Fig. 3d) (27). The absence of stereoselective control in this conjugate addition can be solved using aziridine-2-carboxylic acid-containing peptides (Fig. 3e) (28).
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Figure 3 Different approaches for the introduction of lipid functionalities, here exemplied via the farnesyl group, into peptides. (A) Lipidated amino acid building blocks. (B) Substitution of bromoalanine with a nucleophile. (C) Alkylation or acylation of a free thiol functionality of a cysteine. (D) Conjugate addition of a nucleophile (e.g., farnesylthiolate) to a dehydroalanine. (E) Conjugate addition of a nucleophile to aziridine-2-carboxylic acid containing peptides.
tetrapeptide model Bimane-SC(St Bu)RC(Far)OMe representative for the carboxy terminus of H-Ras and featuring the Bimane uorophore was prepared in solution using Fmoc-chemistry, introducing the farnesyl group at the stage of the Fmoc-protected dipeptide (29). The acylated peptides (Myr)GCX-Bimane (X = G, L, R, T, V), which are found in certain nonreceptor tyrosine kinases and -subunits of several heterotrimeric G-proteins, were synthesized in solution using common solution-phase peptide synthesis with N -myristoylglycine as the building block (29). These model peptides were acylated with Palmitoyl-CoA in phospholipid vesicles at physiological pH. For such uncatalyzed spontaneous reactions, only a modest molar excess of acyl donor species (2.5:1) was necessary. Unprotected side chains of threonine or serine do not interfere with this S -acylation. Lipidated peptides incorporating the C(GerGer)XC(GerGer)OMe motif found in several Rab and homologous proteins were also synthesized in solution via Fmoc-chemistry following cysteine deprotection and geranylgeranylation (30).
palmitoylated dipeptide RC(Pal) and, after deprotection, elongated with NBD-aca-labeled methionine (31). For this block coupling strategy, a set of three orthogonal protecting groups was required, whereby the use of base/nucleophile-labile and hydrogenolytically removable protecting groups was not permitted. The use of the acid labile Boc group for the N -terminus, the enzymatically removable PAOB ester for the C -terminus, and the Pd0 -sensitive Alloc group for the arginine side-chain function turned out to be a successful combination.
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Figure 4 Sequences of lipidated peptides discussed in this review. The frizzled lines indicate the building blocks used for the block coupling strategy of the solution-phase synthesis (when applicable). Abbrevations: BiotAca: N-(+)-Biotinyl-6-aminocaproyl; MantAca: N-methylanthranyl-6-aminocaproyl; MIC: 6-Maleimidocaproyl; NBDAca: N-(4-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-7-yl)-6-aminocaproyl.
produced, and the technique was extended to also include a number of uorescent derivatives. In a reversed approach, N -Ras lipidated peptides were synthesized in solution via an SN 2 displacement of bromoalanine containing hexapeptides with thiopalmitic acid and farnesylmercaptane as nucleophiles (26). The synthetic route started with the dipeptides and tetrapeptides A(Br)M and GLPA(Br), both incorporating bromoalanine. After farnesylation of the C -terminal tetrapeptide, it was coupled to the N -Alloc protected dipeptide. This farnesylated hexapeptide was then treated with thiopalmitic acid for nal palmitoylation. The key feature of the solution synthesis of the C -terminal octapeptide of H-Ras containing one farnesyl thioether and two palmitoyl thioester moieties is the orchestration of the acid-labile tert -butyl ester function as carboxy protecting group, the Pd0 -sensitive Alloc function as amino-blocking group, and the reduction-labile tert -butyl disulde function for masking of thiol groups (13). In addition, a serine hydroxyl and, in particular, a lysine -amino group are located in the vicinity of the thioester groups, increasing the danger of S-O and S-N acyl migrations in the course of the synthesis. The assembly in solution was achieved by dividing the triply lipidated peptide into the two selectively C - and N -terminal unmasked palmitoylated tripeptide building blocks PGC(Pal) and MSC(Pal), the
N -terminally unmasked lysine derivative, and an S -farnesylated cysteine methyl ester. In a combined solution-phase and solid-phase approach the N -Ras lipidated peptide was synthesized by coupling the C -terminal farnesylated cysteine methylester in solution to the rest of the peptide that had been assembled on solid support (34). The second cysteine was protected as a tert -butyl disulde, thus allowing reductive cleavage under physiological conditions, and the N -terminal amine of the peptide was connected to a maleimido group for protein ligation purposes. The use of these protecting and functional groups made the nal segment condensation a relatively straightforward task. An important issue that has to be kept under scrutiny when performing such segment condensations is the possibility of racemization, the selection of validated coupling techniques that avoid the use of basic conditions and polar solvents, however, has usually proved sufcient to avoid or minimize this racemization. Typically, the amino acid (4 equiv) is treated with DIC (4 equiv) and an excess of HOBt (6 equiv) in DMF/CH2 Cl2 mixtures. For the complete solid-phase synthesis of H - and N -Ras peptides, the hydrazide linker turned out to be the linker of choice (14). This linker is cleaved by oxidation to an acyldiazene that is then attacked by a suitable nucleophile. The linker is orthogonal to classic urethane protecting groups such as Boc, Fmoc, and 5
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Figure 5 Solid-phase synthesis of an N-Ras lipidated peptide on hydrazide resin. (A) Fmoc-Cys(Far)-OH, HBTU, HOBt, TMP, CH2 Cl2 /DMFs (1:1). (B) piperidine/DMF (1:4). (C) Fmoc-AA-OH, HBTU, HOBt, DIPEA, DMF. (D) piperidine/DMF (1:4). (E) Fmoc-Cys(Pal)-OH, HBTU, HOBt, TMP, CH2 Cl2 /DMF (1:1). (F) DBU (1 %) in DMF. (G) Fmoc-Gly-OH, HATU (5 eq.), DIPEA (20 eq.) CH2 Cl2 /DMF (7:1). (H) Cu(OAc)2 (0.5 eq.), pyridine (30 eq.), acetic acid (50 eq.), methanol (215 eq.) CH2 Cl2 , O2 .
Alloc, and racemization does not occur on cleavage. Typical nucleophiles that can be used for the cleavage are amines, water, and alcohols (35). The oxidation sensitivity of the linker does require the coupling reactions, and especially Fmoc deprotecting reactions, to be performed under exclusion of oxygen. The hydrazide linker allowed, for example, the synthesis of a completely lipidated N -Ras peptide sequence, including an additional uorophore attached to a lysine side chain or N -terminal glycine and a C -terminal methyl ester (Fig. 5) (14). Coupling conditions of the amino acids were similar to normal solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) with other linkers. One important precaution was taken, however, to avoid an S -N acyl shift of the palmitoyl group after the Fmoc deprotection of the palmitoylated cysteine. It was found that the S -palmitoylated peptides remained stable when the Fmoc deprotection was performed using a solution of 1% DBU in DMF for 2 30 seconds. The next coupling was then performed immediately with preactivated amino acid and HATU as a coupling reagent. Using similar approaches, many different peptides of the Ras family were synthesized on the hydrazide linker, including those containing farnesyl, geranylgeranyl, uorescent labeled geranyl, and palmitoyl lipids. Fluorescent markers such as NBD and photoactivatable groups like the benzophenone group have been introduced and Ras superfamily peptides with C -terminal acid, ester, or amide functionalities have been cleaved from the resin. Similar solid-phase results for Ras peptides could be obtained with another linker, the Ellman sulfonamide linker (vide supra ) (36). An orthogonal linker does not alleviate the use of protecting groups for the amino acid side-chain functionalities. Therefore, for peptides synthesized on the hydrazide linker in general, protecting groups were used that were either highly acid labile such as the trityl group for alcohols, base labile such as the 9-uorenylmethyl ester group for the protection of carboxylic acids, or labile toward noble metals such as the Alloc group for amines and allyl ester for acids (15). These protecting groups can be cleaved from the peptide while still on the resin. However, amines are preferably not deprotected before 6
cleavage as their nucleophilic nature gives rise to side products; the liberated amine can attack the oxidized linker and cleave the peptide, leading to cyclic peptides or oligomers. The more sterically demanding and less nucleophilic alcohol functions of, for example, the serine side-chains feature these problems to a much lesser extent and can generally be deprotected on the resin. Having the amine functionalities protected after cleavage thus requires an additional deprotection step in solution. In general, the synthesis of lipidated peptides on the hydrazide linker is successful for peptides with up to 10 amino acids. As such, the hydrazide linker is one of the preferable systems for a broad range of solid-phase lipidated peptide synthesis.
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C -terminal functionality to a free carboxylic acid. Therefore, the peptide can generally be attached via a lysine side chain near the C -terminus (37, 38), which avoids troublesome block condensations on the solid support with concomitant risk of racemization. The C -terminal prenylated cysteine of the peptide is introduced by coupling a prelipidated cysteine to the selectively deprotected carboxyl function of the anchored lysine. After obtaining such a dipeptide on the resin, the additional steps of the synthesis can be performed in the N -terminal direction, using standard protocols and, for example, an Fmoc/Alloc strategy. The Alloc protected side chains of lysine and arginine can be liberated on the solid support via cleavage with palladium(0) and an appropriate nucleophile. Treatment of the resin with only 1% TFA and a scavenger subsequently releases the peptide while leaving the prenyl/geranylgeranyl group intact (38). A critical requirement for the use of the trityl linker in the above-described method is the presence of an anchor group in the C -terminal part of the peptide sequence that allows cleavage from the resin with 1% TFA only. Another current limitation to the method is the incompatibility with thioesters, for example, palmitoylated cysteines. The deprotection of the Alloc groups with piperidine as scavenger is not compatible with the nucleophile-labile thioester. Optimization of the type of nucleophile might provide a solution, but deprotection of a large number of Alloc groups on solid support is not always a trivial matter. Finally, the Alloc deprotection is incompatible with the maleimide functionality as phosphines, used as ligands for the palladium catalyst, undergo nucleophilic addition to this functionality. Nevertheless, for polybasic prenylated peptides, the use of the trityl linker is a reliable solid-phase approach.
straightforward strategy with no extravagant expenses or complex protecting group chemistry was developed. For the peptide assembly standard Fmoc chemistry was used. The side-chain protecting groups O -Trt and COOAll were subsequently removed on the resin to leave only the N -terminal amine and thiol functionalities masked. The usage of different nucleophiles for the cleavage of the peptide from the hydrazine linker allowed the introduction of a variety of functional groups at the C -terminus.
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allyl transfer to phenylsilane, and the carboxylic acid was connected to glycine-steroid esters by employing PyBOP as a coupling reagent. Subsequently, the N -terminal peptide chain elongation was achieved by means of standard Fmoc solid-phase peptide chemistry to yield different uorescent labeled peptides carrying an NBD group at a lysine side chain or at the N -terminus or MIC-modied peptides. They were cleaved from the resin under mild conditions with 5% TFA, furnishing the desired products in high yields without any side reactions.
Progress in the area of protein ligation methods has given access to a broad spectrum of methods for the semisynthetic production of posttranslationally modied proteins. These methods yield either native bonds (e.g., prior thiol capture, native chemical ligation, or expressed protein ligation) or non-native bonds (e.g., imine capture ligation, oxime ligation, or maleimidocaproic acid ligation). A variety of methods have been developed for the introduction of modied lipids and lipidated peptides into proteins. Most work in this eld has been performed on Ras GTPases, for which two important approaches have been developed (Fig. 6). The rst approach that incorporates synthetic lipidated peptides is based on the use of the MIC-controlled ligation (Fig. 6b) (8, 33, 34, 47, 48). This ligation requires an accessible, for example, C -terminal free thiol group on the protein, usually of a cysteine, to connect the N -terminally MIC-modied peptide. The reaction yields a non-native connection, which is, for example, in the case of Ras not problematic, because it occurs in a exible unstructured region. Care has to be taken with this reaction that there are no other free cysteine side chains available for ligation. The second approach, Expressed Protein Ligation (EPL), connects a lipidated peptide with an N -terminal cysteine to the C -terminus of a thioester-tagged protein via a native peptide bond (Fig. 6a) (15, 16, 38, 49, 50). This reaction is in general highly selective and yields at most a cysteine mutation in the protein as non-native element. An orthogonal approach to introduce specically prenyl moieties into proteins not relying on lipidated peptide is via an in vitro attachment of the prenyl lipids using the corresponding prenyltransferases (51). A recently explored reaction for the incorporation of lipid motifs in peptides and proteins is the copper(I)-catalyzed Huisgens 1,3-dipolarcycloaddition. A GPI anchor could be attached to a peptide successfully, resulting in fast uptake of the peptide into cells (52). The protein ligation methods have been applied for the synthesis of a library of lipidated Ras GTPases with both natural modications and non-natural modications (Fig. 6). These lipidated Ras GTPases have served to elucidate a variety of biological questions concerning these proteins. The specic localization of Ras protein on membranes was investigated using a uorescently labeled N -Ras protein, for example, and found to have a preference for the liquid-disordered phase over the liquid-ordered and solid-ordered phase of membranes using uorescence studies (53). Via AFM studies, it was additionally shown that this protein is actually located in the boundary region of the domains in mixed-phase liquid-ordered/liquid-disordered bilayers. These results suggest that for N -Ras, the membrane localization is probably completely governed by the lipidated C-terminus. As such, the conformation of the C -terminus of Ras proteins bound to the membrane was investigated using NMR (54). The membrane binding of the polybasic K-Ras4B protein was also studied after protein semisynthesis (38). A photoactivatable Ras construct has been made that can be activated to selectively react with protein interaction partners (34). The functionality of these semisynthetic Ras proteins in living cells was also shown (33), enabling advanced cellular characterization of, for example, the prenylation and the palmitoylation process of the protein, using selectively functionalized proteins (5557).
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Figure 6 Schematic representation of protein ligation methods applied for the introduction of a lipidated peptide on proteins and an overview of the synthesized libraries of lipidated proteins as exemplied via Ras GTPases. (A) expressed protein ligation (EPL). (B) Maleimidocaproyl (MIC).
Enzymatic studies using selectively addressable uorescent Rab proteins have elucidated the geranylgeranylation process (16). Structural studies on selectively prenylated Rab proteins have elucidated the exact interaction mechanism of Ras proteins with their transporter protein GDP dissociation inhibitor (GDI) and have led to a membrane extraction model for Rab proteins (58, 59).
Conclusions
Chemical biology is the application of approaches originating from chemistry and the subsequent combination of chemistry and biology to study biological phenomena previously not accessible via chemical or biological approaches alone. Lipidated peptides alone or ligated to proteins offer such entries for lipi9
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dated proteins. For such an integrated research activity, differently modied peptides and proteins that carry modications whose structure can be changed at will through synthesis are invaluable tools. They enable experiments yielding answers in precise molecular detail hardly accessible with biological techniques alone. Therefore, the synthesis of the lipidated peptides is an important theme and is reviewed here. The reviewed examples show that the protocols for both the synthesis of new lipidated peptides and their purication cannot always be generalized. However, with the tools currently developed and appropriate design, most types of lipidated peptides can be synthesized and obtained pure. Recently developed solid-phase synthesis methods delineate the preferred strategy to access the majority of these required lipidated peptides. With the development of these solid-phase lipidated peptide synthesis techniques, the chemical tools to obtain the majority of the required proteins are now accessible.
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Further Reading
Peptide and lipidated peptide synthesis: Pegoraro L, Moroder L.In: Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry, Synthesis of Peptides and Peptidomimetics,Vol. E 22b. Goodman M, Felix A, Moroder L, Toniolo C, eds. 2003. Thieme, Stuttgart, Germany. Gelb MH, Brunsveld L, Hrycyna CA, Michaelis S, Tamanoi F, Van Voorhis WC, Waldmann H. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2006;2:518528. Brunsveld L, Kuhlmann J, Alexandrov K, Wittinghofer A, Goody RS, Waldmann H. Angew. Chem. 2006;118:67746798. Brunsveld L, Kuhlmann J, Waldmann H. Methods 2006; 40: 151165. Solution phase synthesis of lipidated peptides: Naider FR, Becker JM. Biopolymers 1997; 43: 314. Seitz O, Heinemann I, Mattes A, Waldmann H. Tetrahedron Lett. 2001; 57: 22472277.
See Also
Coupling Methods: Peptide Synthesis Lipoproteins, Chemistry of Peptides, Chemistry of Peptide Synthesis Posttranslational Modications, Chemical
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